Senior Manager, WW Neuropsychiatry Medical Communications

Job Title: Senior Manager, WW Medical Neuropsychiatry Medical Communications

The opportunity to work with Bristol Myers Squibb is a chance to engage in challenging, meaningful, and life-changing work. Our company is unique in the industry, offering opportunities for growth and development that are uncommon in scale and scope. You will have the chance to collaborate with high-achieving teams rich in diversity, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in medical communications.

We recognize the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services, and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives.

About the Role:

This Senior Manager position reports to the Executive Director of Medical Communications within WW Medical Neuropsychiatry, Global Medical Affairs. The role is responsible for planning and timely execution of scientifically accurate and strategically aligned communications plans that support medical communication needs of Medical Neuropsychiatry.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager of Medical Communications is accountable for the following:

• Develops and delivers strategically aligned medical publications, scientific content, medical information, medical education, training content, and congress presentations across the BMS matrix.
• Ensures endorsement of medical communications plans by relevant governance bodies prior to execution, continuously developing and maintaining plans in conjunction with scientific landscape and in alignment with Local Market Medical, Worldwide (WW) Medical, and medical market-level strategy.
• Serves as the Medical Communications point of contact between WW/ and other matrix partners.
• Provides medical communications management oversight.
• Enhances bi-directional communication by understanding and sharing the WW medical communications plans to Medical and raises needs to WW Medical/Medical Communications teams, ensuring country/global level of awareness & connectivity including vendor oversight.
• Understands communication needs and owns the pull-through and execution of the Scientific Narrative, development & execution of functionally integrated publication plan, content plan, and application to the Scientific Communication Platform (SCP).
• Must have strong business acumen, ability to interface with market matrix partners & manage Medical Communications budget.

Data Dissemination:

The Senior Manager serves as a subject matter expert to BMS internal audiences related to communication landscape, HCP preferences, publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure / dissemination, and represents BMS scientific communications to external investigators, key authors, and journal editors.

• Promotes and reinforces principles among authors and internal publication stakeholder community, ensuring publications are authored, written, and reviewed according to publication best practices and BMS standards and policies, ensuring BMS publication & scientific content standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry standards, and all BMS employees engaged in publication activities follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree of integrity, quality, and transparency.
• Demonstrates understanding of therapeutic disease areas, expertise to support the establishment of strong working collaborations with both internal and external disease-area experts to ensure quality data analysis, interpretation, communication planning & data disclosure/dissemination.
• Ensures collection of insights to deliver high-quality medical communication that enables the most impactful dialogue and interactions with customers.
• Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes, tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of standards.

Stakeholder Engagement:

The Senior Manager fosters collaborative relationships with academic & clinical experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant key stakeholder groups; participates in external initiatives to foster trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing community.

• Partners with TA Medical Communication Leads, Market Medical, and other stakeholders to assess, plan, and allocate resources (budget, medical writing, biostatistical services) to ensure timely delivery of high-quality medical communications.
• Partners externally with 3rd party vendors to ensure the appropriate balance of internal and external execution of work.
• Establishes clear metrics aligned & regularly communicates metrics with key medical stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate will possess an advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD, or MD, and 5 years of Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry experience with a focus on medical communications, preferably with experience in both local country & global roles. They will have demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, inform, negotiate, and collaborate. Additionally, they will have proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment & demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight timelines.